‘You Saved Hollywood’s A**’: Spielberg Praises Cruise For ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

Hollywood director Steven Spielberg complimented Tom Cruise at Monday’s Academy Awards luncheon, telling him that his film “Top Gun: Maverick” Hollywood may have been saved by this.

“Top Gun: Maverick” It has Gross Since its May 2022 release, $1.48 Billion has been spent worldwide. Other films were successful in 2022. “Jurassic World: Dominion,” It opened in June. Since then, it has brought in more than $1Billion worldwide. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” And “Minions: The Rise of Gru” They have taken in nearly $1 billion since their release in May and July, respectively. “Avatar: The Way Of Water,” The company, which opened in December 2009, outperformed all others, earning more than $2.2 billion worldwide.

“You saved Hollywood’s ass, and you might have saved theatrical distribution,” Cruise was told by Spielberg “Seriously, ’Maverick’ might have saved the entire theatrical industry.”

Steven Spielberg telling Tom Cruise, “Steven Spielberg” “you saved hollywood’s ass. and, you might have saved theatrical distribution. seriously. MAVERICK might have saved the entire theatrical industry.” I must lie down. pic.twitter.com/nYbWbgadM7

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Cruise demanded that the film be released in theaters and not on streaming services. These have boomed ever since the COVID pandemic.

They have collaborated on two films together: “Minority Report” And “War Of The Worlds.”

“Top Gun: Maverick” Nominated for Best Picture, alongside “All Quiet On The Western Front,” “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “The Banshees Of Inisherin,” “Elvis,” “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans,” “Tar,” Triangle Of Sadness,” and “Women Talking.”

“The pandemic created an opportunity for streaming platforms to raise their subscriptions to record-breaking levels and also throw some of my best filmmaker friends under the bus as their movies were unceremoniously not given theatrical releases,” Spielberg: The New York Times December “They were paid off and the films were suddenly relegated to, in this case, HBO Max. The case I’m talking about. And then everything started to change.”

“I think there has to be a concerted effort on the part of movie directors to demand that the streaming services footing the bill for most of these films give their movies a chance to be exhibited theatrically and not just in four theaters to qualify for awards. It’s going to have to come from all of us — the WGA [the Writers Guild], the DGA [the Directors Guild], and eventually the academy,” he declared.

“Certain movies are perfectly suitable to the iPad or the living room. So the decision that executives and executives like myself at Amblin Partners have to make is: Do we consign this movie to a streaming service or this other movie to a four- or six-week theatrical window? … We don’t want these chains to file Chapter 11. We want theaters to stay open,” He concluded.

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